Australia: Department of Industry Science released National AI Plan 2025

On 2 December 2025, the Department of Industry and Science released the National AI Plan 2025. The Plan sets out a framework for the development, adoption, and governance of artificial intelligence (AI) across the Australian economy and society. It outlines three goals. The first goal focuses on capturing AI-related opportunities through investment in digital and physical infrastructure. The second aims to support wider adoption across businesses, workers, and communities. The third focuses on keeping Australians safe through regulatory, ethical, and international governance measures. The Plan sets out nine actions that address infrastructure, local capability, investment attraction, AI uptake, workforce skills, public-service modernisation, harm mitigation, responsible practices, and international standards. It also summarises existing initiatives, including the expansion of the National Broadband Network, GovAI for public-service use of AI, the National AI Centre, the AI Adopt Program, and the establishment of the AI Safety Institute. It identifies future work on data-centre principles, AI-focused Cooperative Research Centres, workforce training, safeguards in consumer protection and privacy, and international cooperation through bilateral and multilateral arrangements such as the Bletchley Declaration, the Seoul Declaration, and the Paris Statement.